Higher Readings in the mornings

[steppitoe]

I would like to reduce my reading first thing in the morning by around 10/15%.

Has anyone any tips/ ideas on what worked for them.

 

[Bluetit1802]

Hi,

What are your morning readings, and what are your going to bed readings?

 

[Martin Flanagan]

Are you on along active insulin it might be that my sugars were running hi in the morning too till my diabetic nurse put it up


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[dawnmc]

Not easy, you are type 2 arnt you. A lot of us are high in the morning Google Dawn phenomenon.

 

[viscountdriver]

The liver dumps sugar during the night to prepare you for the day.

 

[jack412]

Metformin and lchf worked for me

 

[steppitoe]

Amazed to hear about lchf - nothing like the advice I keep on hearing about consuming carbs.

Can I ask how often people usually test. I have not been advised and so have been testing once a day.

 

[Bluetit1802]

Hi,

It depends what you want to test. You can keep an eye on your fasting levels by testing immediately you get up in a morning, you can test just before bed to see what the whole day has done to you, or if you want to test different foods to see what they do to you, test immediately before eating then 1 hour and 2 hours after starting to eat. The testing foods bit is the best way to learn what you can and can't eat.

 

[jim1951]

a small low carb late night snack might help reduce your morning sugar levels. The reasoning being you are shortening the number of hours without food overnight and duping your internal diabetic control centre in relation to its workings re length of perceived starvation.

jim